The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-15

in which he had stored a large quantity of
agricultural implements such as mowers,
drilers, hay rakess etc. The water Hooded
the door Of fis hardware store TO the depth
ofseyeral feet and destroyed great quantities
| of goods. The damage done TO his buildings
and goods amounts to about s25oo0o.
Mr. / r Dull grocery store, $S5000
1 p. J. & A Bleugh, dealers in general mer-
| cbandise, $25o0.00. A warehouse building
2ox3e feet filled with goods owned by this
! firm was alsocarried away
A two-sforv frame dwelling house owned
by Mr.. John J. Miller and occupied by the
families ofP. j. Blougb and Noah Crissey
was well and comfortably furnished Among
other articles of furniture in ii was a hand
some cabinet organ owned by Mr.. Blough.
Lieut. s. 5. Swank's loss is about S3O00.00
His blacksmith shop, stable, and ali of his
! ouibuildings, with their contents, were car
ried away. Every tree, vine and bit of
shrubbery in his large yard was destroyed
as well as most of bis household furniture
| On his lot were two wells one of them was
1 filed with stones. sand and rubbish even
with the ground and the other one within a
few feet of the ground. The above are only
a few of the citizens of this town who lost
heavily by the food.
The iron railroad bridge below the town
was badly damaged, but was left standing on
its piers.
& IIrlu.
Bethel at o'clock The water rose five
feet in ten minutes. At one time there were
sixteen feet of water over the entire village
between the railroad and the river. The fol-
lowing is a list of the property destroyed
The Y. B. Church, loss $1,000, including
Mr. Wilson Cramers organ, which he had
in the Sunday school b. F. Stull, store,
stable, wagon shed, harness, etc, loss 81 500
the min property Berk ey & Stull), damaged
81 900 Lewis Hensel, store goods and house
hold goods $500: Emanuel FASH house oc-
cupied by Lewis Hensel, outbuildings ware
house, and stable 500; Henry Risl, black
smith and wagonmaker shop, $500; Isaac
Paul, cabinet-maller $500 Henry Custer
stables, lot OF cut lumber, etc, 81 200 Whist
Ter property. occupied by Harvey Findley
and Wilson Cramer damaged $500; Harvey
Findey, Wagons etc. 500 Wilson Barmer
household goods, 500. j. A. Boyer, two
wagons and other property $500 +. NJ
Berkey. stable. etc, $4,1 G. G. Holsopple,
lot and outbuildings, $500 D. J Leham,
stable and outbuildings. 500 All stock.
chickens, outbuildings, fences, etc, were
swept away Jacob Rondabtsh, lot damaged
$50. The damage As given above is about
$3.50. The covered county bridge of this
place was carried away and the railroad
bridge was badly damaged.
The race that feeds Berkey & stull's large
grist mill is supplied from the river at a
point north of the town of Bethel. and run
ming directly through the centre of the town
empties into the river south of the town,
thus making an island of a considerable por
ton of the town. Between the race and the
river the ground slopes toward the river,
When the race oyerfiowed, as it did soon af-
ter the waters began to rise those living
sonth of it were completely hemmed in be-
tween the race and river, Mr.. Sam Berkey,
the stalwart and Jolly miller who lives on
the upper side of the race, ran TO his house
and secured pair OF stout leather lines and
with them drew the citizens south Of the
Mr. Lewis Helson was one of the unfortu-
nate ones who were hemmed in he had Il
gold watch and chain ON his person. Before
attempting 10 cross the race he tried 10 throw
the watch and chain to a friend on the other
side IT fell short. and was carried away by
the wafer
AT both Bethel and Hooversville every
thing edible was destroyed and The pangs Of
hunger were making themselves keenly felt |
on "Wednesday morning, when kind hearted
farmers from the surrounding country drove |
into the towns with wagon loads Of proyis-
ions
Every mountain stream that drains into |
the Stonycreek seems to have been con
verted into torrent, sweeping bridges from
their piers and overlapping their banks level
ing fences and growing crops in all diree
tons.
Mr. James NJ Cover, of Jenner X Roads 1
had about 1900 railroad ties along the banks
OF the different streams in Jenner township,
that flow into the Stonycreek, intending to
float them to Johnstwon. They were all
carried away but he sueceened in recovering
most of them along the banks of the river
between Hooversyille and Johnstown.
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Bethel, by way of Stoyestown and Hoovers-
willie, and home again by way of Davidsvile
and Jenner \ Roads, the same scene present
ed itself Wherever there was a stream of
any kind, bridges and fences were gone, and
crops damaged The roads were ia a terrible
but the township supervisors had
gone to work with commendable zeal, and
were rapidly repairing the worst damaged
places, and rendering them al least passa5le.
Farmers Were making and repairing fences
on all sides, or removing logs, ties and drill-
wood from their fields and meadows.
THE FLOOD AT JOHNsrowN.
The following account of how the food
struck Johnstown is taken from the Tribune
Of that place of Tuesday, June IN
The Hood from up the Stonycreck in Som
srset county reached Johnstown about noon,
he water rising steadily and rapidly for
several hours Before noon the roadway
eading to Cambria was flooded. and for the
ime being the rule requiring tickets ofsad-
mission TO the mill yard was abrogated, that
being the only available route TO and from
hat borough and many people taking adj
vantage oft.
There it was, it appears, that the food was
irsi felt in this vicinity. Between II and ]
o'clock. however the water began TO flood
he seventh, Fourth. First, Second, and Third
wards, and about quarter till l O'Clock the
,ouih sidewalk of the Kenyile bridge was
carried away There was then a depth of
about fourteen feet in the channel. and the
water was still rising fast.
shortly before | o'clock the water began
coming down Bedford street To Main, render
ng the crossings impossible. and at the same
ime began to run out Franklin street in
considerable volume, which was steadily
until about soclock, when the
Hood began to subsidc.
The tremendous volume of water and its
burden of driftwood, logs, bridges, etc. swept